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TIL that the narrative that Coca-Cola designed the modern Santa Claus as part of an advertising campaign is not true, because Coca-Cola did start using Santa in advertising in 1933. But Santa had been portrayed almost exclusively in red from the early 19th century

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Submitted by giuliomagnifico t3_zy5sef on December 29, 2022 at 1:46 PM in todayilearned

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TheIronMark t1_j25nyjh wrote on December 29, 2022 at 9:03 PM

Neat. I'll have to own up to spreading the myth, but at least I learned something new.

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